FOR THE GOOD OF YOUR FAMILY:

1. Give your children two parents who are married to each other and live in the same dwelling, and who are kind to each other and to the children.
2. Don't put your children to work, except for a reasonable number of chores;let them play -- and play with them at their games.
3. Connect your children to the natural world -- get them out of the house,with a rational amount of freedom and a chance to explore.
4. Keep in mind that parents who mean well and try hard generally do OK even if they make mistakes along the way.

-- Orson Scott Card, ornery.org, 1/07/07

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: [Rudy] Giuliani and [Newt] Gingrich are on their third marriages, and [George]Allen and [John] McCain are on their second, while [Mitt] Romney's been married to the same woman for 30-plus years. Thus, the candidate in the race with the fewest wives is the Mormon.

Marxist Methodology

[In the 1960s] the New Left began infiltrating and taking control of America's culture-shaping "idea producing' institutions. Their goal was to psychologically manipulate Americans into committing spiritual, cultural, political, and ultimately demographic suicide. This would be achieved through Psychopolitics, the science of sinister psychological manipulation.

The multifaceted attack began in America as it had begun in Russia under Lenin and Trotsky?with attacks upon the patriarchal family and Christianity.

Before long, the notion that marriage, domesticity and family are types of slavery began to be heard. Temptations such as 'free-love,' porn, and drugs were held out to husbands and fathers while the ears of wives and mothers were filled with the poisonous notion that they were sex-slaves to their husbands. "Liberation and personal fulfillment," it was suggested, "were to be found outside the home in the workplace." Easy divorce, abortions on demand, and plenty of daycare centers, it was insinuated, were necessary to achievement of self-fulfillment. Government-controlled schools helpfully offered various social programs, including feeding programs.

The idea that 'unisex is cool' was smoothly slotted into position. This was eventually followed by the idea that sodomy and erotic fantasies were the same thing as having black skin or being Irish or Italian. People who do these things, itwas inferred, are a 'species' or 'class' of people who ought to have the same rights as everyone else. This new species or class is called 'gays,' it was intimated. The word 'pride' became attached to everything about the new class. Through judicial chicanery, sodomy laws were declared unconstitutional and struck down, thus awarding the new 'species' of 'gay' people with the right to engage in sodomy. "Gays ought to have the right to marry and have children (even though theycannot procreate),' we were told. Then very quietly, so no one would notice, the word 'gay' acquired an expanded meaning ... sexual continuum. Almost immediately, the newly expanded definition was redefined to 'polymorphous," also known as androgynous, thus bringing us full circle to unisex. The gospel of unisex (also known as queer theory) began being taught in America's universities. It crept into lower schools disguised as "safe school" programs. ...

"All of the very best people -- the progressively enlightened, tolerant, and broadminded type of people -- support the 'gay civil rights' movement while only backwards, superstition-believing Christians and red-state rednecks don't," we were instructed to believe. "These latter are hateful bigots who ought to be forced into'shutting-up' by having hate-crime laws imposed upon them," Trotskyites slyly suggested.

-- Linda Kimball, opinioneditorials.com, 7/10/06

DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE: It is not bigotry to insist that there is a good reason why marriage has existed in every known human society, and why it has always involved the uniting of men and women. It is not bigotry to acknowledge what reams of scholarship confirm: Family structure matters, and children are more likely to suffer problems when they are not raised by their married mothers and fathers. It is not bigotry to resist the dishonest comparison of same-sex marriage to interracial marriage -- skin color has nothing to do with wedlock, while sex is fundamental to it. And it is not bigotry to fear that a social change as radical as same-sex marriage could lead to grave and unintended consequences, from the persecution of religious institutions to a growing clamor for legalizing polygamy. -- Jeff Jacoby

DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE: The power of the law to communicate society's endorsement tells us that our system does not and should not protect everything it tolerates. -- Bruce C. Hafen, "How Same-sex Marriage Weakens What Marriage Means", meridianmagazine.com, 6/5/06